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somebody's got a case of the mondays.

negotiating. i love watching this skill grow and unfold in these little minds and hearts. negotiating is at the heart of all relationship - how do we hear each other's needs and wants and how do we make space for others and our own to fit together? it's the big question looming in the greater world, and the small question asked 100,000 times each day as we navigate through each moment with our partners and children and friends and family and co-workers and strangers.
how do we first get clear on what it is we do reallly want and need? how do we craft our days so that it fits together like a puzzle with the needs of those we love? maybe a sometimes messy puzzle...why do we tend to assume that there is not enough time and space for what we want? Is that really just an excuse because we are scared to go towards what our hearts really long for, and it's easier to be too busy than to enter the unknown space of fulfilling the strange things our hearts sometimes ask for?
i know i'm being asked to grow, to find my ways to contribute and create, not to prove my worth, but because who i am is begging to be discovered by my own self in new ways, and i often shut that door with a slam of "i don't have the time." so i find myself in endless negotiations with myself, and the only sure thing i can count on is kindness. to and for myself. it feels like it all starts there. and only from there can it spread to all the other forms of negotiating with which i play.

avocado toast is not only trendy, it's the breakfast choice of super heroes.

i might be able to make things levitate after this show.
#jonathanwilson

while the intensity of these days can overwhelm me, so also does the love. i try not to imagine that there will be a day when we don't come together like this.

hide and seek. who knew you could ever love buns so much.

they don't always treat each other kindly, but there are these moments when their hearts just connect and i love to peek in on them, careful to not disturb the moment.

she simply untangles all the thoughts that bind me - with just one look from her eyes and the way she directs my face to hers with her little hand on my cheek.

she reminds me how much i have to celebrate every day.

most everything else only matters a little. except this. this matters a lot. a reminder to pay attention to my own focus.

everywhere we went these 4 magical creatures inspired the people around us to enter our world of wonder. the commuter rail has never been so delight filled!

delighting in the little things today.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust |
here's to friendships that know that distance and time do not matter where the heart is concerned : )

if hearts had wings, mine would be made of such as this.

sisters on a warm winter day. really warm.

how is my baby girl 5 now?! please give me the magic power to slow down time. or at the very least, allow me to appreciate and not miss the magic of the small moments that fill these days.

note to self: you don't have to be more _________ (fill in the blank) than someone else, you just need to be more of yourself.

have you ever been driving in your car on the highway when you see a big hill approaching in the distance? it almost makes me wonder if my car can even handle that steep angle. but then a funny thing happens as the hill approaches. it almost seems to flatten out. once you're on it, it doesn't feel nearly as steep as it looked from a distance. i think life is kind of like this. our challenges seem so huge and looming when we imagine them as ideas. but when we are actually knee deep in the middle of them, we usually get to the work of doing what needs to be done and we unearth courage and strength and gentleness and patience we didn't even know we possessed. sometimes i think the ideas i have about my challenges are much scarier than the challenges themselves.
today's deep thought inspired by @sms25 . and a long road trip.

"A contract says if you do something for me, I'll do something for you. A Covenant says I love you." ~ Tim Bergmann (@timojustfun from an interview with @chinesecrets)
Covenant has not been a word I've really known well, so I looked it up and it comes from the latin, "convene" - to come or bring together. So beautiful. Pretty much defines what this man does for me.

nothing like a road trip to make me so excited to have legs that stretch and move. legs are awesome. also, pretty pumped to love on these two hearts of mine, along with their super-dadda, who gives me the precious gift of letting me be me. even when it's messy. which is almost always, if not emotionally, then literally, in the let's do this crazy project i can't pull off alone!